HTML Forms Submission

[Anon]

Hi!

I need help on submitting or POSTing information to a web application that accepts/receives information through HTML <Form> Elements and using the POST method.

Is it possible to pass or submit information to the mentioned web application without trying to echo or print the parameters in clients' browser and automatically redirecting that HTML page to that web application?
Is there any PHP function that can "POST" HTML <Form> parameters without actually using or creating HTML pages to do the task?

I need this to pass information to a payment gateway because my project concerns passing confidential information from a PHP shopping cart application to a payment system.

[pilot]

Hi,
You don't need to echo the POST vars.

Example:
...
<form method="POST" action="process.php">
...
</form>

process.php

// Here you can insert the vars into a Database.

//This redirect the client to a web page
header ("Location: yourmessage.htm");

PiLoT

[eojlin]

Hi,

I am done with inserting data to my own database, but the information that I need to pass through POST vars are to be submitted to some server which I don't own and probably not using PHP as their scripting language to catch variables.

Well, the situation is like this, I developed my own shopping cart and hosted it to my server. Then everytime there's a transaction, I need to transfer the summarized transaction data to a third party payment system/gateway. This payment system server is located in some/other server/site and is only concerned with the POST variables my scripts submit; and they are probably using Active Server Pages to catch my POST variables.

Is it possible for me to transfer data to my payment gateway without my clients seeing my HIDDEN POST variables in my scripts?

Thanks and I'm hoping for your reply.